SmartTrap is a smart optical tweezers platform that integrates real-time three-dimensional particle tracking, electronics and microfluidics to perform single-molecule biophysics and cell mechanics exp...

Scientific Reports - Increased brightness of fluorescent uridine, qU, inside single- and double-stranded RNA

To overcome challenges in fluorescence labelling of RNA inside living cells we have recently introduced a direct approach using the fluorescent nucleobase analogue 2CNqA. Here we demonstrate its poten...

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Mechanical Characterization of Nucleic acids using Single Molecule techniques